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Typically when editing Revit families, if you want to deal with arrays and stop them breaking when the count is 1, you set up some IF() formulas in Revit. However, a recent comment by David over on Re…
Moustafa Khalil has freely released an Android app and a Revit listener addin that essentially accomplishes a site-to-Revit connection for RFI input into Revit. Essentially, you install the Revit addi…
There are lots of ways to share and track tasks among teams, and this is probably one of the most rudimentary (ie. least feature packed). But I have tested it, and it does actually work. Basically, yo…
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The View “Discipline” setting in Revit is a high level visibility control that can have some significant consequences on how a view actually looks. Amongst other things, it works as a high level switc…
Open an elevated command prompt (Start – type cmd – right click Run as Administrator) @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command “iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(‘htt…
The latest version of CTC BIM Project Suite installs an Explorer extension that can list the following without even opening Revit: Saved with Revit version Saved with Revit build Last saved path Is Re…
Paper by Robert Currer and Jason Pickup. View and download at:BIM & Precast Concrete – A Strategic Guide to Adoption and Implementation | Jason Pickup – Academia.edu via LinkedIn…
Maybe this quote from Al Beckes in AUGI World (October 2014) will help:…
“Revit makes available the following IFC-specific files: IFC Metric Template.rte. This file allows you to create new projects that are already set to the IFC standard. IFC Parameter Upgrade.rvt. This …